[Users] no proxy dns? Why not socks5 127.0.0.1?

[Colin Leroy-Mira]

Hi,

> thunderbird has a proxy dns option. Claws-mail does not. Why not? Claw.mail makes no dns calls?

It does make DNS calls of course, but nobody wrote DNS proxying for Claws, which is why it does not have that option.

> claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Connecting_with_Tor
> instructions say enter localhost. Why does it not say enter 127.0.0.1?

Because that's the same thing.
 
> If you set a proxy then claw-mail transfers all data both ways over tor? The claw-mail program as such does not phone hq
> or in any fashion will transfer data not over tor? Thanks.

All data but DNS lookups will be performed via the proxy. (Including, IIRC, plugin-related network traffic).
Claws-Mail does not phone HQ, upload telemetrics or anything like that.

HTH,
-- 
Colin